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artist: Somnolent
title : The Infernal Expanse
label : Cyclic Law
catalog_number: 189th Cycle
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tracks: 4
type : normal
date : 2021-12-17
url : https://www.deezer.com/us/album/281039691
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stereo : Joint stereo channels
genre : Ambient
genres:
- black ambient
- black metal
- dark ambient
- death industrial
- Post-Metal
similar_artists:
- Reido
- Intaglio
- Comatose Vigil
- Funeralium
- Abstract Spirit
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barcode : 196626065346
label_url : http://www.cycliclaw.com
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Somnolent rises from the abyss with its new album "The Infernal Expanse",
an immense aural beast of infernal and diabolical black/death industrial
dark ambient chaos fuming from the monstrous jaws of total hell and
oblivion. The band comprises of founding solo multi-instrumentalist Jessi
Nihl (Noctis, ex-Lycus, ex-Necrite, among others) on guitars, synths and
electronics, joined on this release by vocalist MA (Abstracter, Atrament,
Ash Prison), and the work sees the duo revel into unseen deconstructions of
reality, fusing dark ambient, ritual industrial, noise and cancerous
black/death metal debris to unearth the quintessence of infernal sonic
abandon.
"The Infernal Expanse" both complements and diverges from Somnolent's
lengthy mostly digital-only and purely electronic dark ambient and harsh
noise discography, and sees the project expand its instrumental arsenal and
apocalyptic yield to catastrophic effects. Adding percussions, strings,
violins, and a churning cauldron of crushing metal guitar abstractions to
the preexisting electronic dark ambient substrate, with "The Infernal
Expanse" Somnolent deliberately embrace certain malevolent and diseased
strains of extreme metal, morphing into an otherworldly sonic cataclysm of
hellish atmospherics, suffocating hallucinatory soundscaping, and
flesh-scaring ritual black industrial madness.
Its tectonic soundscapes and earth-shaking atmospheric dirges evoke aeons
of absolute chthonian tyranny and bury the listener in an infernal aphotic
realm of complete darkness, while molten flows of magmatic dissonance,
twisted abstract black/death metal deformities gnarled out of shape and
bestial demonic vocals conjure an inhuman sonic ceremonial of sprawling
nightmares and absolutely blood-freezing horror.
Influenced by entities like Lustmord, Nordvargr, MZ.412, Portal, Blut Aus
Nord, Tyranny, Teitanblood, Sunn O))), and Impetuous Ritual, with the "The
Infernal Expanse" Somnolent have harnessed a realm of infernal aural
majesty that will inflict deep and horrific wounds into the mind of those
who set ears upon their inverted conjurations, and which will leave long
lasting scars in the fabric of elite underground experimental ambient
black/death metal and industrial.
The release sees two rising forces in the unholy propagation of modern
deviant aural darkness - Cyclic Law and Sentient Ruin - unite once again to
bring fans of ritual sonic hellscapes one of the most baffling and
nightmarish emanations the genre will see all year, with Cyclic Law
handling the CD/digital and Sentient Ruin handling the vinyl/tape/digital
editions worldwide.
bio : |
Started in 2005 in UK under name Cerberus. In 2010 changed name to
Somnolent. Started as a solo project of Jonathan Nicosia aka Jonathan
Nihil/Jessi Nihil, materialized as a live solo act between 2013 to 2018,
eventually bringing in several different live session members.
On 2021 album "The Infernal Expanse" joined by vocalist MA (Mattia Alagna)
(Abstracter, Atrament, Ash Prison).
Transformative dark atmospheric extreme ambient project Somnolent was
created by American multi-instrumentalist and sound designer Jessi Nihil
(Noctis, ex-Lycus, ex-Necrite and countless other projects) as a
development of the artist's long running fascination with occultism and the
work of legendary dark ambient godfather Lustmord. Initially called
Cerberus and based in the UK, this early incarnation of the project was
guitar-based dark ambient, and its original recorded output first surfaced
as far back as 2006 with the album "The Forgotten", released by Dark Forest
Productions (USA) as a pro CD-R. Nihil changed the project's name to
Somnolent in 2010 in correspondence with an increased exploration of more
electronic territories. This new incarnation materialized with a first
digital release called "Manifestations MMXIII" published in 2013 and then
followed by seventeen other digital releases between 2013 and 2021
exploring dark ambient, harsh noise, hellish industrial and everything in
between. During this time Somnolent also materialized as a live solo act
between 2013 to 2018, eventually bringing in several different live session
members. This new outreach expanded the project's scope further and lead to
the incorporation of more instruments and dynamics being added to the mix,
a development which resulted in the conceivement and subsequent recording
of most of "The Infernal Expanse" during 2019. While still firmly rooted in
dark ambient and ritual industrial, "The Infernal Expanse" introduced a
strong affinity to fringe strains of abstract, atmospheric and experimental
black and death metal (another long running influence of Nihil) due to its
prominent use of drums and percussions, strings, aggressive metal guitars
and a malevolence and intensity akin to that of hideous extreme metal
entities like Teitanblood or Portal. These instrumental recordings casually
came across Abstracter vocalist MA (also in Ash Prison and Atrament) who
intrigued by the composition's scope and darkness offered his vocals
services to the work, bringing it to its final form which would become the
towering late 2021 first ever Somnolent physical release via Sentient Ruin
and and European dark industrial label Cyclic Law.
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- [ 2 , "II" , 00:11:10.275 ]
- [ 3 , "III" , 00:07:54.200 ]
- [ 4 , "IV" , 00:12:26.710 ]
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